The _majoon_, or hemp confection, is a compound of sugar, butter, flour, milk, and _sidhee_ or _bang_. The process has been repeatedly performed before me by Ameer, the proprietor of a celebrated place of resort for hemp devotees in Calcutta, and who is considered the best artist in his profession. Four ounces of _sidhee_ and an equal quantity of _ghee_ (clarified butter) are placed in an earthen or well-tinned vessel, a pint of water added, and the whole warmed over a charcoal fire. The mixture is constantly stirred until the water all boils away, which is known by the crackling noise of the melted butter on the sides of the vessel; the mixture is then removed from the fire, squeezed through cloth while hot--by which an oleaginous solution of the active principles and coloring matter of the hemp is obtained--and the leaves, fibres, &c., remaining on the cloth are thrown away. The green oily solution soon concretes into a buttery mass, and is then well washed by the hand with soft water so long as the water becomes colored. The coloring matter and an extractive substance are thus removed, and a very pale green mass, of the consistence of simple ointment, remains. The washings are thrown away; Ameer says that these are intoxicating, and produce constriction of the throat, great pain, and very disagreeable and dangerous symptoms. The operator then takes two pounds of sugar, and, adding a little water, places it in a pipkin over the fire. When the sugar dissolves and froths, two ounces of milk are added; a thick scum rises and is removed; more milk and a little water are added from time to time, and the boiling continued about an hour, the solution being carefully stirred until it becomes an adhesive clear syrup, ready to solidify on a cold surface; four ounces of _tyre_ (new milk dried before the sun) in fine powder are now stirred in, and, lastly, the prepared butter of hemp is introduced, brisk stirring being continued for a few minutes. A few drops of uttur of roses are then quickly sprinkled in, and the mixture poured from the pipkin on a flat cold dish or slab. The mass concretes immediately into a thin cake, which is divided into small lozenge-shaped pieces. Thus prepared it sells for 8s. the 2 lbs; one drachm, by weight, will intoxicate a beginner; three drachms one experienced in its use. The taste is sweet, and the odor very agreeable.